Tag Archives: Faris Al-Rawi

The drama surrounding the contract of the Commissioner of Police reveals our nation’s values, tests the strength of the commitment we make to our institutions, and shapes the character of our country.  We take our democracy for granted and point to the 1990 attempted coup as a sure sign of …

San Fernando West MP and Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi continues to receive limited support from his party, since the furore over his role in the selection process of Gary Griffith as acting police commissioner. Al-Rawi has not yet been defended formally by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, the People’s National …

If any of the emails, releases and obviously planted stories circulating within the last 36 hours have any substratum of fact, then the fact of interference in the selection process for a new commissioner of police and now apparent interference in the attempts to settle the attendant litigation seem confirmed. …

(Scene: A private room. A mainstream reporter, whose identity has been protected to avoid her being trolled half to death, vents to Mr Live Wire.) Mainstream Reporter: […] So I’ve had it up to here with this narcissistic, thin-skinned, empty-headed, all flash and no substance, fountain of made-up information, skin-teeth …

When long holiday reach, yet ah certain fellah breaking his neck to get to work—dem is people to watch; When yuh killing yuhself for big ‘acting’ title but can’t even ‘act’ like a half-decent human-being most of the time—dem is people to watch; When the same MP who cried political …

“[…] The Legal Notice stipulated that the PSC had to submit to the president a list of persons who could act… Was such a list sent to the president?  “To date, the Parliament has not given its approval to an acting CoP. Questions may therefore arise if Mr Griffith is …

It comes as no surprise that our experts have provisionally concluded that the P1 (Brazilian) variant of the Covid-19 virus has expanded within our borders; and, according to Professor Christine Carrington, ‘is the dominant strain right now’.   In last Tuesday’s Trinidad Express, the professor reportedly stated that ‘testing since …

Trinidad and Tobago’s Covid-19 vaccination drive will lose two days of implementation this week due to a rescheduling forced upon the Ministry of Health by the state of emergency regulations, which in itself was designed to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. In other words, to repeat a quip …

The Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education have rescheduled all Covid-19 vaccination appointments on Monday 31 May and Thursday 3 June—the Indian Arrival Day and Corpus Christi holidays respectively—after the operations of its public health facilities were severely curtailed by an amendment to the state of emergency regulations this …

The principal features of the Emergency Regulations, published on Sunday in an additional effort to combat the overwhelming spread of Covid-19 infections, are daytime restrictions on the movement of persons and the imposition of a 9pm to 5am curfew.   I took comfort from the fact that the regulations did …

“[…] The police are to ensure that laws are adhered to. The police cannot make laws. If we go in that direction we are creating a police state.  “This SoE was explicitly proclaimed by the president to deal with a health crisis… The restrictions—including the hours of curfew—should therefore be …

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley called a state of emergency yesterday afternoon based on the health catastrophe that is the Covid-19 pandemic. The people who were not at his side to explain how we arrived at that momentous decision and what comes next were: the chief medical officer, the attorney …